Person
Dan M Kahan
Legal scholar studying cultural cognition—how group identity shapes risk perception and belief formation.
Why this matters
Kahan explains why more information rarely settles disputes that are really about belonging.
Related books3 books
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After Certainty
How to Live and Judge When Understanding is not Enough
How to live and judge once explanation reaches its limits—judgment, responsibility, and participation without replacement frameworks.
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How Meaning Moves
Signal, Compression, Restraint, and the Pace of Understanding
Before people disagree, they interpret. How meaning forms through signal, compression, and restraint—long before anyone is obviously wrong, and often while the sentence is still forming.
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Learning to See
Why Humanity Keeps Rediscovering Practices of Wisdom
A comparative inquiry into how scientific, philosophical, psychological, and spiritual traditions develop practices that help people notice more honestly and live with uncertainty—without claiming those traditions are secretly the same.
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